We attended the Greater Manchester Business Awards 2017 and were delighted to win the award for Corporate Social Responsibility Excellence. Over the last 9 years (and many before that, as well!), TreeStation has worked really hard to both reduce our impact on the environment as well as engage the local community in the work we do, so …
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Greening Manchester! We’ve been working really hard to help our Community & Friends in Manchester! Here’s a list of just some of the things we’ve been up to… We carried out treework for Debdale Park Greenfingers Allotment project for people with learning disabilities group finally enabled them to finally erect their polytunnel for gardening …
We recently sent a donation of logs to Ashgate Specialist Support School in Wythenshawe. They’ve almost finished arranging them – have a look… Don’t they look good? The teachers tell us that the children are already enjoying sitting on them at snack time! If you know of any Schools that could benefit from TreeStation’s help, please …
Goodbye 2016! Despite it being an unheralded disaster on a global level, in the microcosmic TreeStation universe we’ve had a satisfying and productive year.
Our wonderful Community Engagement Officer ran another great “All About Trees” session at Heald Place School in Fallowfield this week. Look how happy and excited the children are to learn more about the trees that are in their school grounds. They were doing bark rubbings to look at different textures of different trees’ trunk’s. We learnt that …
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Hannah and Patricia from TreeStation attended Apple Day which was organised by Sustainable Hayfield. This was a great event, lots of interest in the work of TreeStation to mitigate climate change using local timber and firewood. Our tree ID game was particularly popular – where we have a thirteen pieces of wood and people have …
TreeStation was delighted to sponsor the “Clean and Green” award at the Pride in Gorton Awards. This was an event co-ordinated by Greater Manchester Police and Gorton Events Committee, paid for in part from numerous cash seizures under the Proceeds of Crime Act. Patricia Spray, Community Engagement Officer for the TreeStation, read the nominations and …
Our community engagement officer Patricia has started delivering All About Trees sessions for primary schools. Children explore their schools’ trees and how some species dominate, do bark rubbings, collect different leaves, learn about individual uses of different species and about careers in industry. One teacher from St Mary’s in Reddish remarked it was particularly …
We’re having another Open Day on Saturday 3rd September! We hope to see you there 🙂